Insights and Stories on Flood

Low to moderate risk of Manitoba spring flooding

Mar. 25, 2025 at 2:58 pm CDT

Glacier FarmMedia | MarketsFarm – Manitoba Transportation and Infrastructure’s Hydrologic Forecast Centre reported a low-to-moderate risk of spring flooding in the province on March 25, days before a weather system brings snowfall to much of the province. The centre anticipates most lakes to be within their desired operating ranges after […]

Spring flood risk low to moderate in Manitoba: Report

Feb. 27, 2025 at 2:21 pm CST

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

How El Niño threatens emerging market economies

Aug. 4, 2023 at 10:32 am CDT

By Jorgelina do Rosario Libby George

Manitoba’s Red River Valley at major risk for flooding

Mar. 22, 2023 at 4:01 pm CDT

By Manitoba Co-operator staff

Last year tied as world’s fifth-warmest on record, U.S. scientists say

Jan. 12, 2023 at 4:10 pm CST

By Kate Abnett

Another ‘atmospheric river’ storm renews flood threat in California

Jan. 4, 2023 at 7:52 pm CST

Sacramento | Reuters — Emergency crews braced for the next bout of high winds and torrential rains forecast to sweep California starting on Wednesday, renewing the threat of power outages and flooding that struck parts of the state over the New Year’s weekend. The latest “atmospheric river” — an airborne […]

By Sharon Bernstein Steve Gorman

Northern California deluge’s current rainfall level expected again

Jan. 3, 2023 at 8:55 pm CST

MarketsFarm — While the deluge of rain over northern California took a day’s break on Tuesday, agricultural meteorologist Drew Lerner of World Weather Inc. said the heavy precipitation would soon resume. Following the worst drought in California history, the state has been receiving very intense precipitation that’s brought flooding to […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Nigeria’s flooding spreads to Delta, upending lives, livelihoods

Oct. 19, 2022 at 4:15 pm CDT

Rivers State, Nigeria | Reuters — People wade through fast-flowing water, holding one another to avoid being swept away, balancing suitcases, clothing and food on their heads. The torrent was, until recently, the East-West Road in Nigeria’s Rivers state, the gateway to the nation’s oil and gas. Now parts of […]

By Angela Ukomadu

Produce prices spike in flood-hit Pakistan as food crisis looms

Aug. 31, 2022 at 2:31 pm CDT

Lahore | Reuters — Vegetable and fruit prices have soared in markets across Pakistan as devastating rains ruin crops and disrupt supplies, an early sign of how the worst floods in decades are creating food shortages at a time of financial crisis. Pakistan’s 220 million people are already facing rampant […]

By Mubasher Bukhari

Eastern Prairies’ wet conditions may curb insect pest risk

May. 16, 2022 at 8:15 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — If there could be one benefit to the excessive moisture across much of southern Manitoba and the Interlake region, that would be a potentially reduced risk for insect pests, according to John Gavloski, entomologist for Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Resource Development. For example, Gavloski cited flea beetles, which […]